But it is also the exhale of someone who has arrived—who can finally breathe after making it through the anxiety-inducing experience of the border crossing, seeking refuge, subject to the capricious whims of a world and system that could turn on her at any moment. What we long for is an escape not from creaturehood but from the fraught, harrowing experience of being human in a broken world. What we’re hoping for is a place where a sovereign Lord can assure us, “You’re safe here.”
